Hi.
A question:
Basicaly If I have a CNAME record *.mydomain.com and it's good for www &
mail (the servers are being "called" with inet by the port) and I don't want
to have a backup mail server, then I don't have any special reason to setup
an MX record. Right ?
Ishai.
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From: "guy keren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ilya Konstantinov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:47 AM
Subject: MX records (was: Re: FreeHand files under linux)
>
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
>
> > BTW,
> >
> > Ishai, make sure your new domain parasol.org.il has an MX entry in the
> > DNS, pointing to it's mail handler host. Otherwise, many MTA (including
> > mine, Exim) will refuse to route to it.
>
> this sounds like a bug in exim. as far as i know, if a domain has no MX
> record, but has an A record, the MTA should contact the machine in the A
> record as the mail server for the domain.
>
> better check the RFC. then, better check for a bug in Exim, or your
> configuration.
>
> --
> guy
>
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